TORONTO — Jordan Montgomery will start Sunday for the first time since May 1, 2018, when he left a game in Houston after one inning with a left elbow problem that required Tommy John surgery six weeks later. “It feels like I was 5 years old when it happened,’’ Montgomery said of the road back....

Jordan Montgomery to make 1st start for Yankees in 17 months
TORONTO — Jordan Montgomery will start Sunday for the first time since May 1, 2018, when he left a game in Houston after one inning with a left elbow problem that required Tommy John surgery six weeks later. “It feels like I was 5 years old when it happened,’’ Montgomery said of the road back....

It’s hardly the prettiest block in New York City. Still, a block of 172nd Street in Jamaica, Queens now has a new, and some would say sacred, name — “Detective Keith L. Williams Way” — and the slain officer’s widow gave an impassioned speech at Saturday’s street renaming ceremony, describing the beauty she sees there....

‘Google him,’ NYPD widow urges as Queens street renamed in honor of slain husband
It’s hardly the prettiest block in New York City. Still, a block of 172nd Street in Jamaica, Queens now has a new, and some would say sacred, name — “Detective Keith L. Williams Way” — and the slain officer’s widow gave an impassioned speech at Saturday’s street renaming ceremony, describing the beauty she sees there....

Yes, indeed, there is a difference between urgency and panic, as the Giants insisted this week leading into their Week 2 matchup with the Bills — a home opener that has the feel of a double-parked car with the meter patrolman in the area and heading in your direction. That the Giants were competitive for...

Giants’ task vs. Bills starts with cleaning up the secondary
Yes, indeed, there is a difference between urgency and panic, as the Giants insisted this week leading into their Week 2 matchup with the Bills — a home opener that has the feel of a double-parked car with the meter patrolman in the area and heading in your direction. That the Giants were competitive for...

College students on vaping amid a mysterious outbreak of vaping-related lung illnesses
The CDC, FDA, White House and a who's who of officials in suits want young people to stop using e-cigarettes amid a mysterious outbreak of hundreds of vaping-related lung illnesses.

If the United Kingdom leaves the European Union with a no-deal Brexit, travelers to the UK will potentially face huge queues as well as food shortages and civil unrest, according to warnings from experts and the document Operation Yellowhammer.

No-deal Brexit would be a 'catastrophe' for travelers, experts warn
If the United Kingdom leaves the European Union with a no-deal Brexit, travelers to the UK will potentially face huge queues as well as food shortages and civil unrest, according to warnings from experts and the document Operation Yellowhammer.

In Britain, e-cigarettes are seen as central to the fight against smoking, but many experts believe the evidence is contradictoryIn politically fractious times, vaping has achieved the impossible. It has morphed into a common enemy for those at opposite ends of the political spectrum.Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, pledged that his foundation will spend $160m fighting youth vaping, while Donald Trump has unveiled plans for a ban on flavoured e-cigarettes to protect, as he put it, “innocent children”. Continue reading...

After six deaths in the US and bans around the world – is vaping safe?
In Britain, e-cigarettes are seen as central to the fight against smoking, but many experts believe the evidence is contradictoryIn politically fractious times, vaping has achieved the impossible. It has morphed into a common enemy for those at opposite ends of the political spectrum.Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, pledged that his foundation will spend $160m fighting youth vaping, while Donald Trump has unveiled plans for a ban on flavoured e-cigarettes to protect, as he put it, “innocent children”. Continue reading...

TORONTO — Manager Aaron Boone said J.A. Happ could start Thursday against the Angels at Yankee Stadium, but wasn’t certain about the left-hander, who received a cortisone shot in his left biceps Friday. “I’m thinking probably Thursday but not sure,’’ Boone said of Happ who last worked this past Thursday in the first game of...

Yankees’ J.A. Happ could get a start in Angels series
TORONTO — Manager Aaron Boone said J.A. Happ could start Thursday against the Angels at Yankee Stadium, but wasn’t certain about the left-hander, who received a cortisone shot in his left biceps Friday. “I’m thinking probably Thursday but not sure,’’ Boone said of Happ who last worked this past Thursday in the first game of...

Saudi, Gulf stocks fall after attack on Aramco oil plants
Saudi stocks plunged 2.3% as the market opened on Sunday, after attacks on two plants at the heart of the kingdom's oil industry a day earlier knocked out more than half of Saudi crude output.

Animal Rebellion’s actions highlight the impact of meat eating on the planet’s futureIn 1991, 17-year-old Alex Lockwood was flipping through the Guardian Weekend magazine in his family’s car, en route to a family Sunday roast, when he spotted an image that changed his life. A harpooned whale, its body bloodied and lifeless, drew him to a feature about its killing.“That picture just shook me; it seemed so wrong. When I got to my nan’s house it hit me that the roast on the table was an animal that had also been killed.” He became vegetarian, then vegan, and nearly three decades later is one of the founding members of Extinction Rebellion’s new sister organisation, Animal Rebellion, which formed in June and plans to blockade London’s Smithfield Market – Britain’s largest meat distribution market – in October. Continue reading...

How Sunday lunch at nan’s led to a vegan’s battle against the climate crisis
Animal Rebellion’s actions highlight the impact of meat eating on the planet’s futureIn 1991, 17-year-old Alex Lockwood was flipping through the Guardian Weekend magazine in his family’s car, en route to a family Sunday roast, when he spotted an image that changed his life. A harpooned whale, its body bloodied and lifeless, drew him to a feature about its killing.“That picture just shook me; it seemed so wrong. When I got to my nan’s house it hit me that the roast on the table was an animal that had also been killed.” He became vegetarian, then vegan, and nearly three decades later is one of the founding members of Extinction Rebellion’s new sister organisation, Animal Rebellion, which formed in June and plans to blockade London’s Smithfield Market – Britain’s largest meat distribution market – in October. Continue reading...

In a muddled National League Cy Young award race, Jacob deGrom could be considered the front runner. “There’s some strong points we can all make that deGrom is leading this race,” manager Mickey Callaway said before the Mets’ 3-0 victory over the Dodgers on Saturday. DeGrom’s stock rose even further with a three-hit shutout over...

Mickey Callaway: Jacob deGrom should win Cy Young again
In a muddled National League Cy Young award race, Jacob deGrom could be considered the front runner. “There’s some strong points we can all make that deGrom is leading this race,” manager Mickey Callaway said before the Mets’ 3-0 victory over the Dodgers on Saturday. DeGrom’s stock rose even further with a three-hit shutout over...

Saudi's full oil supply could take weeks to resume - source
Saudi Arabia's return to its full oil supply capacity after Saturday's attacks on Aramco oil plants could take "weeks not days", a source close to the matter told Reuters on Sunday.

It’s that moment in the year, things are moving on, time to turn a page in life’s new notebookThree little words that every adult longs to hear: back to school. Words infused with possibility, fear and the smell of strawberry rubbers, they perform a kind of time-machine spell, almost entirely dissociated from a parent’s reality of the new autumn term. Rather than simply a period in which Tesco does a decent two-for-one deal on notebooks, “back to school” is an existential obsession. Without wanting to sound like an ageing cheerleader caked in nostalgia, this time of year has started to inspire in me a kind of yearning for a grown-up equivalent, an opportunity to return, refreshed, and start again.To bin the uniforms we’ve grown out of, in my case dresses that, instead of making me look cheery and smart, on a body reshaped by time’s mean claw, give me the appearance of Nicholas Lyndhurst dragging up for a Goodnight Sweetheart special. To replace them with new ones suitable for a new term. A chance to look closely at oneself, a year older, and consider who you want to be. Continue reading...

As the kids go back to school, let’s all take the chance to refresh
It’s that moment in the year, things are moving on, time to turn a page in life’s new notebookThree little words that every adult longs to hear: back to school. Words infused with possibility, fear and the smell of strawberry rubbers, they perform a kind of time-machine spell, almost entirely dissociated from a parent’s reality of the new autumn term. Rather than simply a period in which Tesco does a decent two-for-one deal on notebooks, “back to school” is an existential obsession. Without wanting to sound like an ageing cheerleader caked in nostalgia, this time of year has started to inspire in me a kind of yearning for a grown-up equivalent, an opportunity to return, refreshed, and start again.To bin the uniforms we’ve grown out of, in my case dresses that, instead of making me look cheery and smart, on a body reshaped by time’s mean claw, give me the appearance of Nicholas Lyndhurst dragging up for a Goodnight Sweetheart special. To replace them with new ones suitable for a new term. A chance to look closely at oneself, a year older, and consider who you want to be. Continue reading...

The young must be protected from being exploited by online platformsLast week, MPs called on the government to classify online loot boxes as gambling and in the process highlighted a scandal: the $137.9bn (£110bn) gaming industry makes much of its profit by ripping off children. Young people are being nudged, enticed and coerced not only to carry on playing but also paying.Loot boxes – mystery objects in virtual treasure chests that players pay to open – resemble nothing so much as a lottery. Gamers spent $30bn on them worldwide in 2018, a figure that has been predicted to rise to $50bn in the next five years. Continue reading...

The games industry shouldn’t be ripping off children | Geraldine Bedell
The young must be protected from being exploited by online platformsLast week, MPs called on the government to classify online loot boxes as gambling and in the process highlighted a scandal: the $137.9bn (£110bn) gaming industry makes much of its profit by ripping off children. Young people are being nudged, enticed and coerced not only to carry on playing but also paying.Loot boxes – mystery objects in virtual treasure chests that players pay to open – resemble nothing so much as a lottery. Gamers spent $30bn on them worldwide in 2018, a figure that has been predicted to rise to $50bn in the next five years. Continue reading...

The BBC panel show now causes as much debate as it hosts, accused of bias by all sides. Presenter Fiona Bruce still has hope for the futureQuestion Time turns 40 at the end of this month. The BBC institution is not immune to that birthday’s particular mix of crisis and denial. While the programme’s 25th year was marked with affectionate celebration and nostalgic retrospectives, this time around there will be little fanfare. Mostly, you imagine, like many of us who have experienced that midlife milestone, the show would ideally like to take to its bed in a darkened room to fret about its blood pressure and its sell-by date, and to relive those golden years before any red-faced audience member ever yelled the words “no deal” or “confirmatory vote” or “the Irish backstop”.For those who hold to the idea that politics and journalism should be more about listening than lecturing, more about informed doubt than angry certainty, Question Time has for a long while been an uncomfortable watch. Since the redoubtable charmer David Dimbleby finally threw in the towel after 25 years, aged 80, in December, the hottest seat in British broadcasting has belonged to Fiona Bruce, who maintains a measure of order with a mixture of good humour and exasperation and that judiciously raised eyebrow. Her early outings on the show were praised for their briskness and confidence. As this long year has worn on, however, she has, like the rest of us, looked a little more beleaguered. She was not 20 minutes into the first show after the summer break before she was calling a time-out to the partisan bickering: “We are better than this.” Most evidence in the current public square suggests that we are not. Continue reading...

Fiona Bruce on 40 years of Question Time: 'it's where the reality confronts the rhetoric'
The BBC panel show now causes as much debate as it hosts, accused of bias by all sides. Presenter Fiona Bruce still has hope for the futureQuestion Time turns 40 at the end of this month. The BBC institution is not immune to that birthday’s particular mix of crisis and denial. While the programme’s 25th year was marked with affectionate celebration and nostalgic retrospectives, this time around there will be little fanfare. Mostly, you imagine, like many of us who have experienced that midlife milestone, the show would ideally like to take to its bed in a darkened room to fret about its blood pressure and its sell-by date, and to relive those golden years before any red-faced audience member ever yelled the words “no deal” or “confirmatory vote” or “the Irish backstop”.For those who hold to the idea that politics and journalism should be more about listening than lecturing, more about informed doubt than angry certainty, Question Time has for a long while been an uncomfortable watch. Since the redoubtable charmer David Dimbleby finally threw in the towel after 25 years, aged 80, in December, the hottest seat in British broadcasting has belonged to Fiona Bruce, who maintains a measure of order with a mixture of good humour and exasperation and that judiciously raised eyebrow. Her early outings on the show were praised for their briskness and confidence. As this long year has worn on, however, she has, like the rest of us, looked a little more beleaguered. She was not 20 minutes into the first show after the summer break before she was calling a time-out to the partisan bickering: “We are better than this.” Most evidence in the current public square suggests that we are not. Continue reading...

The bands played but the funeral of Zimbabwe’s ex-president was a strange affair in a divided nationAt just before 11.30am, the thousands of mourners in the vast bowl of Zimbabwe’s national stadium stood and the casket carrying the mortal remains of Robert Gabriel Mugabe began its short journey across the green grass to the podium where it would lie during the long, hot hours of the funeral.A military brass band led the procession. Then came the bereaved family and Mugabe’s successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, followed by foreign dignitaries, before a small crowd of ministers and officials from the ruling Zanu-PF party. Continue reading...

Pomp, thin crowds and mixed feelings as Robert Mugabe is buried
The bands played but the funeral of Zimbabwe’s ex-president was a strange affair in a divided nationAt just before 11.30am, the thousands of mourners in the vast bowl of Zimbabwe’s national stadium stood and the casket carrying the mortal remains of Robert Gabriel Mugabe began its short journey across the green grass to the podium where it would lie during the long, hot hours of the funeral.A military brass band led the procession. Then came the bereaved family and Mugabe’s successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, followed by foreign dignitaries, before a small crowd of ministers and officials from the ruling Zanu-PF party. Continue reading...

While Jamal Adams soared, Marcus Maye barely got off the ground. The Jets had high hopes for their two young safeties at this time last year, seeing them as the linchpin of their defense. Adams reached those expectations. He was selected to the Pro Bowl and was named the team’s MVP in his second season....

Jets’ Marcus Maye wants to be elite safety like Jamal Adams
While Jamal Adams soared, Marcus Maye barely got off the ground. The Jets had high hopes for their two young safeties at this time last year, seeing them as the linchpin of their defense. Adams reached those expectations. He was selected to the Pro Bowl and was named the team’s MVP in his second season....

One in four people applying for council support in 2018-19 were in paid work, government data showsOne in four households in England found to be homeless or under threat of homelessness last year were in paid work at the time, an Observer analysis of government figures reveals.Data published last week showed that, of more than 260,000 households facing a homelessness crisis, more than a quarter of applications for council support were made by a household member who was in paid employment at the time. In some areas, the proportion of working households facing losing their homes was much higher, reaching more than half in one council, Rutland in the East Midlands. Continue reading...

25% of households at risk of homelessness are in work
One in four people applying for council support in 2018-19 were in paid work, government data showsOne in four households in England found to be homeless or under threat of homelessness last year were in paid work at the time, an Observer analysis of government figures reveals.Data published last week showed that, of more than 260,000 households facing a homelessness crisis, more than a quarter of applications for council support were made by a household member who was in paid employment at the time. In some areas, the proportion of working households facing losing their homes was much higher, reaching more than half in one council, Rutland in the East Midlands. Continue reading...

BRONCOS (+2½) over Bears: Customers were pounding Da Bears in Super Bowl futures as if Vegas was about to run out of ticket paper. Chicago’s defense is worthy — but offensive brain trust isn’t, and Mitchell Trubisky has about a year to prove out. The Vinny Testaverde timeline won’t work. Bills (-1¹/₂) over GIANTS: Versus...

Broncos vs. Bears: Chicago will struggle again
BRONCOS (+2½) over Bears: Customers were pounding Da Bears in Super Bowl futures as if Vegas was about to run out of ticket paper. Chicago’s defense is worthy — but offensive brain trust isn’t, and Mitchell Trubisky has about a year to prove out. The Vinny Testaverde timeline won’t work. Bills (-1¹/₂) over GIANTS: Versus...

In choosing to engage with social media, trolling victims fuel a poisonous narrativeThe recent documentary from Little Mix’s Jesy Nelson, Odd One Out, should be placed in a time capsule to show future generations the pain of being a young 21st-century woman dealing with cyberbullying. While social media is a key promotional tool of the pop industry, and fame has a price, this doesn’t excuse the way that Nelson was tortured about her looks and weight. Still, her experience usefully demonstrates how young people – even famous, successful ones – can be tricked into tending their own online misery.There’s nothing original about casual cruelty but these days, it’s turbo-boosted by social media platforms that allow people to unleash darkness, then pop out for a pizza as though nothing has happened. It’s not the spite that’s new – it’s the ease of it, the grotesque lack of accountability. Continue reading...

As Jesy Nelson revealed, fame is no defence against toxic online attacks
In choosing to engage with social media, trolling victims fuel a poisonous narrativeThe recent documentary from Little Mix’s Jesy Nelson, Odd One Out, should be placed in a time capsule to show future generations the pain of being a young 21st-century woman dealing with cyberbullying. While social media is a key promotional tool of the pop industry, and fame has a price, this doesn’t excuse the way that Nelson was tortured about her looks and weight. Still, her experience usefully demonstrates how young people – even famous, successful ones – can be tricked into tending their own online misery.There’s nothing original about casual cruelty but these days, it’s turbo-boosted by social media platforms that allow people to unleash darkness, then pop out for a pizza as though nothing has happened. It’s not the spite that’s new – it’s the ease of it, the grotesque lack of accountability. Continue reading...

Thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters marched under a sea of umbrellas on Sunday after hundreds had sung "God Save the Queen" outside the British Consulate demanding that the former colonial power ensures China honours the city's freedoms.

Hong Kong protesters on the march after plea to colonial power UK
Thousands of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters marched under a sea of umbrellas on Sunday after hundreds had sung "God Save the Queen" outside the British Consulate demanding that the former colonial power ensures China honours the city's freedoms.

Tunisians are casting ballots in their North African country’s second democratic presidential election, choosing among 26 candidates for a leader who can safeguard its young democracy and tackle its unemployment and corruption

Tunisia seeks new leader to boost economy, fight terror
Tunisians are casting ballots in their North African country’s second democratic presidential election, choosing among 26 candidates for a leader who can safeguard its young democracy and tackle its unemployment and corruption

The former PM fails to acknowledge that he allowed the Tory party’s ultra right to railroad him into a referendum that did not have to be heldMr Cameron does not know his own country. His apology for “the uncertainty and division that followed” the referendum result is an attempt to keep alive the fiction that it had to be called – only its conduct was mistaken. Wrong. There was no widespread call for a renegotiated relationship with the EU in the country in 2013 when he made his fateful decision. There was only a problem of Tory party management.The needless pain inflicted by severe cuts, along with the reaction to immigration, was always going to make it a hard referendum to win. The ground had to be carefully laid, the referendum carefully framed and a compelling cross-party campaign organised. None of that happened. And too little of that is recognised by our wounded, self-indulgently sorrowful ex-PM. Continue reading...

David Cameron’s self-indulgent sorrow doesn’t excuse his cowardice | Will Hutton
The former PM fails to acknowledge that he allowed the Tory party’s ultra right to railroad him into a referendum that did not have to be heldMr Cameron does not know his own country. His apology for “the uncertainty and division that followed” the referendum result is an attempt to keep alive the fiction that it had to be called – only its conduct was mistaken. Wrong. There was no widespread call for a renegotiated relationship with the EU in the country in 2013 when he made his fateful decision. There was only a problem of Tory party management.The needless pain inflicted by severe cuts, along with the reaction to immigration, was always going to make it a hard referendum to win. The ground had to be carefully laid, the referendum carefully framed and a compelling cross-party campaign organised. None of that happened. And too little of that is recognised by our wounded, self-indulgently sorrowful ex-PM. Continue reading...

Brandon Curry became the 15th man to win the Mr. Olympia title during the weekend, taking the top spot during Saturday's final event. Per Derek Hall at FitnessVolt.com, Curry took home $400,000 of a record-setting $1...

Mr. Olympia 2019 Winner: Video, Results and Prize Money for Brandon Curry
Brandon Curry became the 15th man to win the Mr. Olympia title during the weekend, taking the top spot during Saturday's final event. Per Derek Hall at FitnessVolt.com, Curry took home $400,000 of a record-setting $1...

Grassroots leaders call for a decisive stance to stay in EU and deliver a radical new manifestoJeremy Corbyn has come under growing internal pressure to commit Labour to a unequivocal policy of remaining in the European Union as more than 100 councillors issued a joint warning to the party’s ruling body that any form of Brexit would threaten jobs, public services, workers’ rights and the environment.In a letter to the national executive committee (NEC), which meets this week, the Labour councillors, including several leaders of county and borough councils, called on the party “to campaign unambiguously and energetically for a public vote on Brexit and to endorse a ‘remain and transform’ position in all circumstances”. Continue reading...

We must stop Brexit in any form, councillors tell Jeremy Corbyn
Grassroots leaders call for a decisive stance to stay in EU and deliver a radical new manifestoJeremy Corbyn has come under growing internal pressure to commit Labour to a unequivocal policy of remaining in the European Union as more than 100 councillors issued a joint warning to the party’s ruling body that any form of Brexit would threaten jobs, public services, workers’ rights and the environment.In a letter to the national executive committee (NEC), which meets this week, the Labour councillors, including several leaders of county and borough councils, called on the party “to campaign unambiguously and energetically for a public vote on Brexit and to endorse a ‘remain and transform’ position in all circumstances”. Continue reading...

Molly Goddard hit the bullseye when the Killing Eve character wore her creations. Her London Fashion Week show displays her talentMolly Goddard is perhaps the first designer in fashion history to find fame by dressing a psychopath. The frothy, bubblegum-pink dress that became synonymous with the character of Villanelle, played by Jodie Comer in Killing Eve, rocketed Goddard from the ranks of promising young British design talent to become a major fashion player.Villanelle struck again at London fashion week on Saturday. Goddard’s 10th collection, shown to a packed house in an art deco leisure centre in central London, gave the fashion crowd more of the voluminous, highlighter-bright dresses which Goddard has made into a phenomenon, and closed with model Edie Campbell wearing a billowing taffeta fuchsia cloud-gown. This season’s Molly Goddard woman is, as always, uninhibited and overdressed. She wears smocked tulle, puffball taffeta or ribbon-gathered calico. With its jelly baby palette and off-kilter silhouette, the look is a riot of deliberately mixed messages. Think Comme des Garcons’ Japanese avant-garde chic crossed with Bonpoint’s deliciously French upscale childrenswear. Continue reading...

Villanelle designer unveils dresses to die for
Molly Goddard hit the bullseye when the Killing Eve character wore her creations. Her London Fashion Week show displays her talentMolly Goddard is perhaps the first designer in fashion history to find fame by dressing a psychopath. The frothy, bubblegum-pink dress that became synonymous with the character of Villanelle, played by Jodie Comer in Killing Eve, rocketed Goddard from the ranks of promising young British design talent to become a major fashion player.Villanelle struck again at London fashion week on Saturday. Goddard’s 10th collection, shown to a packed house in an art deco leisure centre in central London, gave the fashion crowd more of the voluminous, highlighter-bright dresses which Goddard has made into a phenomenon, and closed with model Edie Campbell wearing a billowing taffeta fuchsia cloud-gown. This season’s Molly Goddard woman is, as always, uninhibited and overdressed. She wears smocked tulle, puffball taffeta or ribbon-gathered calico. With its jelly baby palette and off-kilter silhouette, the look is a riot of deliberately mixed messages. Think Comme des Garcons’ Japanese avant-garde chic crossed with Bonpoint’s deliciously French upscale childrenswear. Continue reading...

TORONTO — The challenge for the final 12 games of the season is big for the Yankees. They must establish home-field advantage throughout the postseason and incorporate major missing pieces who are returning: pitchers Luis Severino and Dellin Betances, slugger Giancarlo Stanton and catcher Gary Sanchez. It’s a giant jigsaw puzzle. Big names joining big...

Yankees’ injuries means equation has changed for Giancarlo Stanton
TORONTO — The challenge for the final 12 games of the season is big for the Yankees. They must establish home-field advantage throughout the postseason and incorporate major missing pieces who are returning: pitchers Luis Severino and Dellin Betances, slugger Giancarlo Stanton and catcher Gary Sanchez. It’s a giant jigsaw puzzle. Big names joining big...

Tim Walker’s glossy, dreamily surreal work has dominated fashion photography for two decades. On the eve of a rare show at the V&A, he talks about inspiration, not working too hard and how he was once sacked by Richard AvedonIt’s 1995 and supermodels are not getting out of bed for less than $10,000. In Richard Avedon’s studio, a converted fire station on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Nadja Auermann and Kristen McMenamy are being shot for the new Versace campaign. Both “supes” are almost 6ft, and their hair has been teased upwards, like a skyline, to add another couple of inches. Their frocks and suits are bold, body-conscious, all shoulders and boobs: the acme of power dressing. Avedon – whom everyone calls “Dick” – sets his large- format, 10x8in plate camera low, shooting upwards, making Auermann and McMenamy seem even more like Amazonian deities.In the background, meanwhile, a skinny, somewhat pasty Englishman, not quite 25, looks on. He is Avedon’s fourth assistant, meaning he defers not only to the photographer but to a third assistant, a second assistant and a studio manager. His main responsibilities are changing light bulbs, emptying wastepaper bins, getting food for everyone. He’s shy and a little dreamy, but he is noticing everything. Continue reading...

Tim Walker: ‘There’s an extremity to my interest in beauty’
Tim Walker’s glossy, dreamily surreal work has dominated fashion photography for two decades. On the eve of a rare show at the V&A, he talks about inspiration, not working too hard and how he was once sacked by Richard AvedonIt’s 1995 and supermodels are not getting out of bed for less than $10,000. In Richard Avedon’s studio, a converted fire station on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Nadja Auermann and Kristen McMenamy are being shot for the new Versace campaign. Both “supes” are almost 6ft, and their hair has been teased upwards, like a skyline, to add another couple of inches. Their frocks and suits are bold, body-conscious, all shoulders and boobs: the acme of power dressing. Avedon – whom everyone calls “Dick” – sets his large- format, 10x8in plate camera low, shooting upwards, making Auermann and McMenamy seem even more like Amazonian deities.In the background, meanwhile, a skinny, somewhat pasty Englishman, not quite 25, looks on. He is Avedon’s fourth assistant, meaning he defers not only to the photographer but to a third assistant, a second assistant and a studio manager. His main responsibilities are changing light bulbs, emptying wastepaper bins, getting food for everyone. He’s shy and a little dreamy, but he is noticing everything. Continue reading...

The latest defection to their ranks will embolden optimistic Lib Dems to think that we are on the verge of a big realignmentDavid Steel once told a Liberal conference to “go away and prepare for government”. They went away and remained in opposition. Vince Cable once said that he could imagine himself becoming prime minister. Which is where that idea stayed: in his imagination. Nick Clegg did take them into government during the coalition years, an experience that ended with the Lib Dems losing all but eight of the 57 MPs they started with five years earlier.So they have had fair warning about the perils of dreaming of breakthroughs. They usually don’t come true. On the rare occasions when they do, the consequences for the party can be terrible. But dream they always will and never more so than now. Continue reading...

Against very familiar rivals, Jo Swinson will be the wild card of the election | Andrew Rawnsley
The latest defection to their ranks will embolden optimistic Lib Dems to think that we are on the verge of a big realignmentDavid Steel once told a Liberal conference to “go away and prepare for government”. They went away and remained in opposition. Vince Cable once said that he could imagine himself becoming prime minister. Which is where that idea stayed: in his imagination. Nick Clegg did take them into government during the coalition years, an experience that ended with the Lib Dems losing all but eight of the 57 MPs they started with five years earlier.So they have had fair warning about the perils of dreaming of breakthroughs. They usually don’t come true. On the rare occasions when they do, the consequences for the party can be terrible. But dream they always will and never more so than now. Continue reading...

The New York Times, under its “New York Times Opinion” Twitter banner, issued an apology late Saturday, saying it had deleted an “offensive” Twitter message promoting a Times article that makes allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

NY Times sparks furor with tweet describing alleged Kavanaugh behavior as 'harmless fun'
The New York Times, under its “New York Times Opinion” Twitter banner, issued an apology late Saturday, saying it had deleted an “offensive” Twitter message promoting a Times article that makes allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Explosions halve Saudi output and reduce global production by 5%Global supplies of oil are likely to suffer a “major jolt” following Saturday’s attack by a swarm of explosive drones on the world’s biggest oil processing plant in Saudia Arabia.Major fires engulfed the Abqaiq processing facility and the Khurais oil field after the attack, for which Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed responsibility. They said they launched 10 drones with “intelligence cooperation from people inside Saudi Arabia”, according to the rebel-run Saba news agency. The rebels’ spokesman Yahya Saree said their operations “will expand and would be more painful as long as the Saudi regime continues its aggression and blockade” on Yemen, he said.The fires are now under control at both facilities, Saudi state media said. Continue reading...

Drone attacks on Saudi plant could hit global oil supplies
Explosions halve Saudi output and reduce global production by 5%Global supplies of oil are likely to suffer a “major jolt” following Saturday’s attack by a swarm of explosive drones on the world’s biggest oil processing plant in Saudia Arabia.Major fires engulfed the Abqaiq processing facility and the Khurais oil field after the attack, for which Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed responsibility. They said they launched 10 drones with “intelligence cooperation from people inside Saudi Arabia”, according to the rebel-run Saba news agency. The rebels’ spokesman Yahya Saree said their operations “will expand and would be more painful as long as the Saudi regime continues its aggression and blockade” on Yemen, he said.The fires are now under control at both facilities, Saudi state media said. Continue reading...

With Jacob deGrom and Hyun-Jin Ryu squaring off in the second of a three-game series between the Mets and Dodgers, it was bound to be a showcase for two front-runners in the National League Cy Young race. And as far as pitching duels go, they did not disappoint. The Mets’ 3-0 victory over the Dodgers...

NL Cy Young front-runners put on a show
With Jacob deGrom and Hyun-Jin Ryu squaring off in the second of a three-game series between the Mets and Dodgers, it was bound to be a showcase for two front-runners in the National League Cy Young race. And as far as pitching duels go, they did not disappoint. The Mets’ 3-0 victory over the Dodgers...

When you hire a lawyer, your chances of overpaying are considerable, according to one legal expert. “There is potentially 10 percent to 30 percent chance of legal bills for overcharging or over-inflation of hours disguised as blocks analyzing this or focusing on that,” said Ryan Loro, president of Philadelphia-based SIB Legal Bill Review, a service...

How to know if your lawyer is overcharging you
When you hire a lawyer, your chances of overpaying are considerable, according to one legal expert. “There is potentially 10 percent to 30 percent chance of legal bills for overcharging or over-inflation of hours disguised as blocks analyzing this or focusing on that,” said Ryan Loro, president of Philadelphia-based SIB Legal Bill Review, a service...

The 2019 Mr. Olympia competition may have been devoid of major star power, but those in attendance during the weekend came up big, with Brandon Curry taking the win. The favourite finished ahead of William Bonac and Hadi Choopan...

Mr. Olympia 2019 Results: Final Info for Brandon Curry, Dexter Jackson, More
The 2019 Mr. Olympia competition may have been devoid of major star power, but those in attendance during the weekend came up big, with Brandon Curry taking the win. The favourite finished ahead of William Bonac and Hadi Choopan...

Vaping Bad: Were 2 Wisconsin Brothers the Walter Whites of THC Oils?
As authorities work to understand the spate of vaping-related lung illnesses, a small-town drug bust offers a closer look at the vast black market for vaping supplies.

An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said on Sunday that U.S. bases and aircraft carriers were within range of Iranian missiles, a day after Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group attacked two Saudi Aramco plants.

Iran says U.S. bases and aircraft carriers within range of its missiles: Tasnim
An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said on Sunday that U.S. bases and aircraft carriers were within range of Iranian missiles, a day after Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group attacked two Saudi Aramco plants.

Prime minister warns Brussels that he will reject any offer of prolonged membership and renews his threat of no dealBoris Johnson will tell the outgoing European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, on Monday that he will defy a new act of parliament and refuse to discuss or accept any offer to extend the UK’s membership even if a Brexit deal cannot be agreed, Downing Street said last night.The prime minister’s hardline message to Brussels that he will take the UK out of the EU on 31 October, come what may, will enrage MPs from all parties who joined forces last week to force through a new law mandating him to ask the EU to prolong UK membership from the current deadline of 31 October until 31 January next year, to avoid a no-deal outcome. Continue reading...

Johnson to tell Juncker: ‘I won’t discuss Brexit extension beyond 31 October’
Prime minister warns Brussels that he will reject any offer of prolonged membership and renews his threat of no dealBoris Johnson will tell the outgoing European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, on Monday that he will defy a new act of parliament and refuse to discuss or accept any offer to extend the UK’s membership even if a Brexit deal cannot be agreed, Downing Street said last night.The prime minister’s hardline message to Brussels that he will take the UK out of the EU on 31 October, come what may, will enrage MPs from all parties who joined forces last week to force through a new law mandating him to ask the EU to prolong UK membership from the current deadline of 31 October until 31 January next year, to avoid a no-deal outcome. Continue reading...

Every so often, a game appears on the schedule that makes you think back to Super Bowl XXV, and how the Giants shocked the Bills and the world when Scott Norwood’s 48-yard field goal sailed wide right. It just so happens it is the Bills who are visiting MetLife Stadium on Sunday, and it just...

Giants should follow Bill Parcell’s formula to beat Bills again
Every so often, a game appears on the schedule that makes you think back to Super Bowl XXV, and how the Giants shocked the Bills and the world when Scott Norwood’s 48-yard field goal sailed wide right. It just so happens it is the Bills who are visiting MetLife Stadium on Sunday, and it just...

Reports of a possible shooter at a mall in Virginia sparked panic Saturday night as people hid in stores and officers searched for a gunman. Hours later, police said they'd found no evidence of a shooting inside the Ballston Quarter mall in Arlington.

Panic breaks out after reports of a shooter at a movie theater in Virginia
Reports of a possible shooter at a mall in Virginia sparked panic Saturday night as people hid in stores and officers searched for a gunman. Hours later, police said they'd found no evidence of a shooting inside the Ballston Quarter mall in Arlington.

Disparity is almost the same in 2015 as in 1980, say researchers who call for contracts to be made publicIn the Richard Curtis film Notting Hill, the bumbling stockbroker Bernie, played by Hugh Bonneville, meets Anna Scott, unaware that Julia Roberts’s character is the world’s most famous female actor.Upon learning her profession, he patronisingly commiserates with Anna about the low wages paid to actors, declaring them “a scandal”, and asks how much she received for her last movie. Without missing a beat, Anna replies “$15m”, the actual amount Roberts was paid to do the movie, a rare example of when an actress has earned more than her male counterpart – in this case, Hugh Grant. For a real scandal in acting has always been the huge gender pay gap. Continue reading...

Hollywood’s gender pay gap revealed: male stars earn $1m more per film than women
Disparity is almost the same in 2015 as in 1980, say researchers who call for contracts to be made publicIn the Richard Curtis film Notting Hill, the bumbling stockbroker Bernie, played by Hugh Bonneville, meets Anna Scott, unaware that Julia Roberts’s character is the world’s most famous female actor.Upon learning her profession, he patronisingly commiserates with Anna about the low wages paid to actors, declaring them “a scandal”, and asks how much she received for her last movie. Without missing a beat, Anna replies “$15m”, the actual amount Roberts was paid to do the movie, a rare example of when an actress has earned more than her male counterpart – in this case, Hugh Grant. For a real scandal in acting has always been the huge gender pay gap. Continue reading...

The Taliban on Sunday revoked their ban on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Afghanistan and gave a guarantee of security for its staff doing humanitarian work in areas under their control.

Taliban revoke ban on Red Cross, provide security guarantees
The Taliban on Sunday revoked their ban on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Afghanistan and gave a guarantee of security for its staff doing humanitarian work in areas under their control.

Brandon Curry made good on his status of 2019 Mr. Olympia favourite on Saturday, winning his first ever title. The 36-year-old beat William Bonac to the top spot and the $400,000 main prize, per Derek Hall at FitnessVolt...

Mr. Olympia 2019 Results: Winner, Highlights, Prize Money and Twitter Reaction
Brandon Curry made good on his status of 2019 Mr. Olympia favourite on Saturday, winning his first ever title. The 36-year-old beat William Bonac to the top spot and the $400,000 main prize, per Derek Hall at FitnessVolt...